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Moriori were forbidden to marry Moriori or Māori or to have children. This was different from the customary form of slavery practised on mainland New Zealand. [17] A total of 1,561 Moriori died between the invasion in 1835 and the release of Moriori from slavery by the British in 1863, and in 1862 only 101 Moriori remained.
View of Dunedin looking south over the Octagon c. 1914 Newly Completed Dunedin Town Hall 1929. Relative to the rest of the country Dunedin was in decline, however, merchants like Edward Theomin built his grand town house Olveston and the Dunedin Railway Station was an opulent building, both completed in 1906.
Anderson, Atholl (1983), When All the Moa-Ovens Grew Cold: nine centuries of changing fortune for the southern Maori, Dunedin, NZ: Otago Heritage Books; Anderson, Atholl (1998), The Welcome of Strangers: an ethnohistory of southern Maori A.D. 1650–1850, Dunedin, NZ: University of Otago Press with Dunedin City Council, ISBN 1-877133-41-8
As "Otakou" it is now a suburb within the boundaries of Dunedin. Weller's Rock, also known as Te Umu Kuri, near Harington Point on the Otago Peninsula (at 45°47′52″S 170°42′54″E / 45.79778°S 170.71500°E / -45.79778; 170.71500 ), is named after the Weller brothers
The first the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition in 1889–90 was a high point of Dunedin economic and cultural importance. The large scale tourist potential of Otago had been acknowledged since at least the 1870s in McKay's Otago Almanac. [50] With the building of the Dunedin to Kingston railway in the late 1870s this potential could be ...
While heading the parliamentary campaign against the British slave trade for twenty years, leading to slave trading being prohibited in the British Empire in 1807, William Wilberforce, with other members of the Clapham Sect, championed the foundation of the Anglican Church Missionary Society (CMS) in 1799, with the determination to improve the ...
Lodge Maori [201] Ravensbourne Road Ravensbourne: Masonic Lodge Logan Park Grandstand [202] Logan Park Drive Logan Park, Dunedin North: 1930 Sport grandstand (in use) Manor Place Conveniences [203] Intersection of Manor Place, Hope Street, Princes Street, Dunedin Dunedin City: 1912 Public conveniences (men only) Marinoto [204] Newington Avenue ...
William Tucker (c. 16 May 1784 – December 1817) was a British convict, a sealer, a trader in human heads, an Otago settler, and New Zealand’s first art dealer.. Tucker is the man who stole a preserved Māori head and started the retail trade in them.